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So I'm installing a steel butt plate on a trapdoor stock, and I remove the butt plate from my TD carbine just to see how it's installed, and found this!!
I think it says:
Frank (or Jilank ) E Rooette
C M 11 Penn Camp
Columbus Ohio 1891

Finally a gun that talks to me!! Is that cool or what!!
More research to do!!

That is just AMAZING!!!!!

Looks like Frank to me.
And that's even cooler than the name tag under the butt plate of my K-31 s-r

My old shop teacher was a big Civil War Historian. I'm sure there are more in Ohio. I might start @.....https://fcghs-oh.org/contact.php

Rosette?

That is really neat. Makes me want to remove ours and see what we find.

Thats an old style cursive F, the way it was taught to me in Catholic School. It’s absolutely Frank.

Very cool!

Cool!

I think I'll be taking off a few more butt plates!!

I e mailed the Ohio historical society. I'll see if they can come up with more info!

That is too cool, I thought about putting my name on a few I restored but never have. it will sure be nice to hear him speak again.

Big Al1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:47 pm I think I'll be taking off a few more butt plates!!

I e mailed the Ohio historical society. I'll see if they can come up with more info!

Forends too. I found the original owner of the Stevens single shot .22 I bought for my son as his first gun scratched on to the wood forend under the barrel and the date 1920. He had just passed away and I bought the gun form his widow. It was the gentleman’s first gun too…

Check findagrave to see if you can uncover more info
That is a very cool discovery

That's too cool. I've never found anything like that.

Very cool AL
Could it be Hank ?
Maybe caulking the letters will make them stand out better.

Provenance makes the gun cooler